HOMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN BILLBOARD PROJECT COPENHAGEN 2025
DOCUMENTATION:
The video presents a selection of the participating artists railboards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpDcVb9iGkQ
Society is full of cultural narratives and expectations of what older women are, can do and should be. To counter this HOMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN invited 100 women artists from Scandinavia to express their personal view of older women and this phase of their lives. The individual works of art on railboards in stations in and around Copenhagen presented 100 visual statements that brought a broader and more nuanced image of older women into public space. The project paid tribute to the wrinkles, wisdom and life experience of older women to generate recognition and present alternative visions.
Idea and concept visual artist Hanne Lise Thomsen in collaboration with curator Lise Grüner Bertelsen.
The opening of HOMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN was on 1 March 2025 at Mads Nørgaard Copenhagen. The event included an exhibition of small-format images of all 100 platform billboards, and a panel discussion.
HOMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN was supported by:
The New Carlsberg Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, Beckett Foundation, the Politiken Foundation, Ernst Sune Fonden and Poul Johansen Fonden.
